Plesk’s Spam Filter is a nice utility that can help you reduce significantly the amount of spam you get in your inbox. Learn how to use it properly.

Sometimes you don’t want everybody to access certain files or areas of your website. While there are several ways to do this, the easiest one is to use a file named “.htaccess”. This tutorial will show you how to protect a directory using Plesk.

Autoresponders are used to automatically reply to a sender when a message is received. Autoresponders have a variety of uses, including “out of office” messages, vacation messages, or even “I’m in training all day and will have sporadic access to email.”
For this tutorial, I’ll be using my FatCow account. They’ve provide a very reliable and [...]

A control panel is something that is required to use or control a particular product. For instance, you need a control panel (remote control) to operate your television set. Similarly, pilots need a control panel to fly their aircrafts or a driver uses the control panel to drive his car. In much the same manner, [...]

A “hot link” is a file on your site loaded directly from another site. Sometimes this is okay, but it is generally acceptable only if you request permission. Hotlinking without permission steals your bandwidth (sometimes known as “leeching”). Images are commonly hotlinked.
Plesk allows you to configure hotlink protecting by file type, per directory, on a [...]

Since signing up with ZipHosters.com, I got the chance to try out Plesk (a web hosting control panel) a little more. I am using Parallels’ control panel for my VPS but I didn’t try out Plesk a lot.
In this post, I’m going to show you how to create a MySQL database. I’ve already done some [...]